I'd like to add the Orbella Fragrant Moss launch which I'm hosting on Thursday in San Francisco.We are going to have a showcase/retrospective of biotech/bio-designed consumer products, some 'grown' furniture and of course our Orbella Fragrant Moss, as well as what might be the worlds first autonomous robot DJ (DJ Human), soylent based cocktails, snacks etc.

Brooklyn, NY, USA – Fungi Fabrication: Mycelium Materials. Work with mycelium as material for experimental design applications. Grow a variety of samples, starting from a store bought mushroom, to mycelium grown using experimental techniques, to shaping molds to form mycelium composite materials grown to shapee. In this 3-session course, Ali Schachtschneider helps you gain skills and insight into potential applications for fungi based materials—walking away with new knowledge, mycelium tissue-culture skills, and grown material samples.

Seattle, WA, USA – Lightning Science Talks at SoundBio Six scientists from University of Washington will share stories about how a glowing jellyfish led to a Nobel Prize, why personal data collection is changing the way we view ourselves, how recent technical advances are allowing us to ask new questions in biology, and more.

Seattle, WA, USA – Heart & Blood Workshop Learn about blood, some of its functions, how it is moved around in different organisms, and cardiac electrophysiology, with a focus on our own system. Lecture and lab material are provided to learn blood and transport systems, how to determine your hematocrit, typing your own blood, microscopic evaluation of our white blood cells, origin of heart sounds, use of a stethoscope, dissection of a mammalian four-chambered heart, cardiac electrophysiology, and performing an ECG.

To see when the next event is in your area, check the full list of usual suspects. Don't see one near you? Why not have your own and get it posted here? Tell us about it by emailing eve...@diybio.org. It would be great to post some photos of your event somewhere. We'd love to see them. We do have some guidelines for what is posted, and are not capturing every event in the community.

I've been seeing this chunky, whitish growth on many of my shoot tip cultures. Does anyone know what it is? It doesn't seem to affect the culture and grows too slow to be a contaminant. My best guess is maybe chemical precipitate or odd callus growth of some sort?

I've been seeing this chunky, whitish growth on many of my shoot tip cultures. Does anyone know what it is? It doesn't seem to affect the culture and grows too slow to be a contaminant. My best guess is maybe chemical precipitate or odd callus growth of some sort?

Brooklyn, NY, USA – Fungi Fabrication: Mycelium Materials. Work with mycelium as material for experimental design applications. Grow a variety of samples, starting from a store bought mushroom, to mycelium grown using experimental techniques, to shaping molds to form mycelium composite materials grown to shapee. In this 3-session course, Ali Schachtschneider helps you gain skills and insight into potential applications for fungi based materials—walking away with new knowledge, mycelium tissue-culture skills, and grown material samples.

Seattle, WA, USA – Lightning Science Talks at SoundBio Six scientists from University of Washington will share stories about how a glowing jellyfish led to a Nobel Prize, why personal data collection is changing the way we view ourselves, how recent technical advances are allowing us to ask new questions in biology, and more.

Seattle, WA, USA – Heart & Blood Workshop Learn about blood, some of its functions, how it is moved around in different organisms, and cardiac electrophysiology, with a focus on our own system. Lecture and lab material are provided to learn blood and transport systems, how to determine your hematocrit, typing your own blood, microscopic evaluation of our white blood cells, origin of heart sounds, use of a stethoscope, dissection of a mammalian four-chambered heart, cardiac electrophysiology, and performing an ECG.

To see when the next event is in your area, check the full list of usual suspects. Don't see one near you? Why not have your own and get it posted here? Tell us about it by emailing events@diybio.org. It would be great to post some photos of your event somewhere. We'd love to see them. We do have some guidelines for what is posted, and are not capturing every event in the community.

If you have the capability to buy plasmids, you can most likely buy one that already has GFP cut into it. Other than that I would ask some educational facilities if you can get a sample of the GFP gene to express yourself. If you can't find a plasmid that has GFP and the expression system you want, you may be able to buy the gene from ThermoFisher.

Many companies that sell plasmids won't let you purchase anything under a 'John-Q Public' account so you'll need a business account, non-profit would be the best way to go.

After endless research and reading about genetics, I have finally decided to yield to my curiosity, and put some time into the lab. As such, I'm trying to find an affordable source for GFP to be used in a project where, agrobactarium- t. is used to deliver GFP into a plant. Thoughts?

If you have the capability to buy plasmids, you can most likely buy one that already has GFP cut into it. Other than that I would ask some educational facilities if you can get a sample of the GFP gene to express yourself. If you can't find a plasmid that has GFP and the expression system you want, you may be able to buy the gene from ThermoFisher.

Many companies that sell plasmids won't let you purchase anything under a 'John-Q Public' account so you'll need a business account, non-profit would be the best way to go.

After endless research and reading about genetics, I have finally decided to yield to my curiosity, and put some time into the lab. As such, I'm trying to find an affordable source for GFP to be used in a project where, agrobactarium- t. is used to deliver GFP into a plant. Thoughts?